THE BEST IS YET TO COME | THE COMEBACK, EPISODE 6

Pastor Sarah Lau ~ September 25^th & 26^th, 2021

But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”  Ruth 1:16 (NIV)

“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”  Ruth 1:20-21 (NIV)

1. Don’t allow a to become your .

Finally, brothers and sisters, fill your minds with beauty and truth. Meditate on whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good, whatever is virtuous and praiseworthy.  Philippians 4:8 (VOICE)

So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.  Ruth 1:22 (NIV)

2. The setback won’t last .

3. God is at even when we least expect it.

At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”  Ruth 4:6 (NIV)

4. God’s for my life is greater than my .

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.  Ruth 4:13-17 (NIV)

Daily Bible Readings:

Mon–Ruth 1:16//Tue–Philippians 4:8

Wed–Ruth 4:14-15//Thu–Psalm 46:1

Fri–2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Memory Verse:

Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.  Psalm 62:8 (NIV)

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